Emotional Introspection Quotes

What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.

Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It's underneath all the music I've ever written... An artist is trying to tell you how he's feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.

When you watch 'Doom Patrol,' you'll see most of the characters are trying to run away from their feelings and their emotions, and the minute they take a second and look at themselves face to face, that's when things can actually get resolved and get one step closer to peace.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.

I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate that my parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way; it was normal to expose things.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see / I guess that's just the cowboy in me.

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.